Barnicle tweeted this morning that Frates, the man who came up with the Ice Bucket Challenge, had died.
— Nancy Frates (@momfrates) July 3, 2017
By adamg - 6/23/11 - 3:49 pm
For those who don't remember (raises hand), Salon recounts one of Barnicle's more infamous columns, after a guy won a $14 million lottery
By adamg - 5/30/09 - 2:07 pm
But I repeat myself. In any case, listen to Barnicle whining about soccer.
By Anonymous - 2/12/09 - 10:57 am
This morning on MSNBC Morning Joe in a segment about a CNBC documentary, Mike Barnicle poses a question about the role of Congress in the financial crisis. But he can't do it without fabricating quotations of members of Congress with words more likely to be heard at a Red Sox Yankees game:
"You people suck whatever......"
are the words he invented and put into the mouths of Congressmen and Congresswomen who questioned bank executives yesterday.
Two things:
By Anonymous - 1/21/09 - 7:29 am
I'm not sure but is Barnicle saying that he and other media personalities should have the exclusive right to be bloviating blowhards?
By adamg - 11/5/08 - 10:53 am
Sure, they didn't have Princess Leia begging Obi-Wan Kenobi for help like CNN, but they did have Mike Barnicle.
By adamg - 6/17/08 - 4:07 pm
Brian writes:
Over the next few months, it might be fun to keep a tally of how many times Civic Disgrace Mike Barnicle talks up his friendship with the late Tim Russert. ...
By adamg - 4/22/08 - 11:00 am
The Columnist Who Will Not Die shows up on Huffington Post with a column that, as Dan Kennedy
By adamg - 4/8/08 - 9:33 am
Back when he was a metro columnist, Brian McGrory would always write about Opening Day.
By adamg - 4/4/08 - 4:22 pm
WBUR should either finally hire him so people can start donating to WGBH instead or they should announce they're not hiring him so people can stop getting heartburn.
By adamg - 3/31/08 - 12:27 pm
UPDATE: Looks like the site was taken down. Oh, well. It was full of Mike Barnicle's greatest hits.
If it had a Web site, it would look like this.
I'd forgotten the Mandingo quote.
Via Amy Derjue.
By adamg - 3/27/08 - 5:23 pm
WBUR general manager to Barnicle haters: It's been 10 years, people, give it a rest. But while he tells Dan Kennedy he thinks Boston needs Barnicle, he doesn't say whether he's offering Barnicle a job on 'BUR.
By adamg - 3/15/08 - 8:50 pm
Adam Reilly, back to blogging, reports on the interesting/depressing possibility that Mike Barnicle might wind up on WBUR, now run by Paul LaCamera, wh
By adamg - 6/13/07 - 5:06 pm
Jessica Heslam reports Barnicle doesn't want to permanently replace Don Imus on WTKK.
By adamg - 4/13/07 - 1:42 pm
Mike Barnicle, the man 10,000 silver bullets can't kill, sounds almost remorseful that he has to fill in for Don Imus for at least the next two weeks (transcript
By adamg - 1/25/07 - 8:16 am
John Daley caught Mike "The Old Plagiarizer" Barnicle and Dan "CHB" Shaughnessy on the radio yesterday:
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